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Tuesday, 24 July 2012

How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the atom

Another interesting read: How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the atom Fukushima 'crisis' changed my mind on nuclear power: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/rss/fl20120724zg.html
..."Let's look objectively at what happened. There was a major
earthquake, unprecedented in scale, followed by a 15-20-meter tsunami
that flooded a large nuclear power plant. The equipment designed to
provide power to the cooling systems in case of accident was flooded,
and human error was also a factor. As a result, full or partial meltdown
occurred in three separate reactors. It was pretty much a worst-case
scenario. Yet, not one person was killed by radiation, and nobody
has been harmed, though two workmen, who have since been released from
hospital, were reported to have received "radiation exposure to the
legs." Overall, not much of a "disaster," especially compared to a
genuine industrial catastrophe like Bhopal in India in 1984, where more
than 10,000 people died and 500,000 were injured."

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